Pay & Benefits

Did the Federal Government Pick Up Your Student Loan Tab?

If you received money from Uncle Sam to help pay for your higher ed, we want to hear how you obtained the benefit.

Nextgov

Tech Unemployment Falls to 2.7 Percent

But IT professionals aren't quitting their jobs just yet.

Pay & Benefits

Uncle Sam Will Ask Feds About Pay, Job Satisfaction This Spring

OPM will administer its annual survey of the government workforce beginning in late April.

Pay & Benefits

Uncle Sam Has Shrunk the Gender Pay Gap Over the Past 20 Years

Federal women in 2012 earned 87 cents for every dollar a man earned – 17 cents more than in 1992.

Pay & Benefits

Why Do Washington's Women Leaders Make Less?

What National Journal's 2014 salary survey says about the pay gap.

Pay & Benefits

Advice From a TSP Millionaire

Tips on how to get the most out of your savings.

Pay & Benefits

House Votes to Increase Feds’ Pension Contributions

The Republican fiscal 2015 budget resolution includes several provisions affecting the government workforce.

Oversight

House Panel: No Pay Raises for Congress in 2015

Appropriations committee rejects a bid to grant lawmakers a per diem for living expenses.

Pay & Benefits

Student Loan Perk Doesn’t Benefit Most Federal Employees

Republicans want to eliminate a $70 million incentive to reduce overall spending.

Pay & Benefits

Boehner: Make It Easier to Fire VA Execs

House speaker gets behind a GOP effort to hold managers more accountable for their job performance.

Pay & Benefits

Your Mass Transit Benefits Could Soon Double

Legislative provision bringing benefits back to their 2013 levels would apply retroactively to Jan. 1.

Oversight

Analysis: Want Effective Government? Then You Have to Pay Better

Civil servants face a brain drain if Congress persists with pay freezes, benefit cuts, and badmouthing dedicated employees.

Pay & Benefits

House Panel Approves Plan to Increase Feds’ Pension Contributions

Republican fiscal 2015 budget resolution would require feds to contribute up to 5.5 percentage points more to their retirement benefit.